Juan Gris, 1913: Pears and Grapes on a Table. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Source: Photo by the author. Since cubist art reduces ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York’s largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged ...

Determining the 10 most famous Cubist paintings in an objective and scientific way is impossible, because there is no way of knowing how many people have heard of just one cubist painting, let alone ...

Forbes values the collection at $1.1 billion, a figure we used in calculating his net worth of $8.1 billion for our Billionaires issue, published in early March. The Cubist trove therefore signifies a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cosmetics heir and art collector Leonard A. Lauder said on Tuesday the collection of 81 Cubist masterpieces he has donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will update the museum ...

Presenting a selection of works that span Cubism’s birth in 20th century Paris to today, the show investigates the movement’s beginnings and the lasting impact it had on subsequent generations of ...

The opening of “Decenter” at Abrons Arts Center, with Douglas Melini’s “Favorable Transformations” (2012) in the foreground (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) I first learned about Cubism in ...

Billionaire art collector, philanthropist, and cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder has died at age 92. The son of Joseph and Estée Lauder (born Josephine Esther Mentzer), he helped grow her namesake ...